I'm sorry to ask, but....

Colleges & Universities University of Chicago
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<p>Can anyone give me an idea of my chances? I’m freaking out.</p>

<p>ACT: 31 (35 E, 29 M, 33 CR, 25 S)</p>

<p>GPA: 90 or 91 out of 100 (unweighted)
I have taken all a advanced courses offered throughout high school (with the exception of senior year, which works differently at my school).</p>

<p>I’m currently in AP Lit, Calculus, Poetry, Modern Physics, a history elective, and a Judaics elective.</p>

<p>Recs: should be awesome, one from my physics teacher, one from my AP English teacher</p>

<p>Essays: Should be good, though I’m stressing over them at the moment. </p>

<p>ECs:
-Lots of Theatre (all 4 years)
-Secretary of NHS
-Exec Board of Junior Statesmen (Treasurer, running for a new position this year)
-Prose Editor of school literary magazine
-Varsity Softball (2 years)
-Vice President and Secretary of BBYO chapter (Jewish youth group)
-I volunteer at a hospital 4 hours a week, I’ve been doing it since July</p>

<p>I’m white, female, and from Texas if that matters. I will be applying EA and then RD if I don’t get in EA.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure that if you get rejected EA you can’t apply again. But I’d say you have a fairly good chance, as long as you have a good quirky essay.</p>

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<p>For EA, you are either accepted, deferred or denied - if you are denied, you would need to reapply the following year.</p>

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<p>Essays do not need to be quirky.</p>

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<p>thank you…so if I apply EA and get deferred I can still get accepted RD, correct? It’s only if I get denied EA that I am out altogether? Is it common for people to be denied altogether EA?</p>

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<p>That’s right. Students are rejected EA if they would not have gotten in during the RD round.</p>

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<p>I seem to remember that it’s about a third accept, a third reject, a third defer. A defer-accept is not uncommon.</p>

<p>And again, I’ll agree with corranged-- your essays do not need to be quirky. They need to be honest. A pet project of mine is finding out what people write about for their essays, and fewer people than you would think say that they wrote about chipmunks and Genghis Khan.</p>

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<p>I’d say 50%. Your school operates a lot like mine in terms of courses.</p>

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<p>Why are you interested in the school. That matters much.</p>

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<p>my essay is goofy… i made my own prompt… either they’ll eat my essay or they’ll die laughin (havent written it yet, but have the prompt)… and no, essay doesnt need to be quirky…
Like Hemingway said: “write the truest sentence you know.”</p>